A possible weapon for prosecution. Its the inside story. Ers wrom to inside story. Im Lisa Fletcher in for ray suarez. Tonights program indicting the grand jury. Back to the colonial days, some 200 plus years later there is a growing force of critics. Grand juries dont decide guilt or innocence but rather should charges be brought. Most grand jury members dont understand the complexity of the law so they can be easily led by prosecutors. If grand juries no longer be point . Al jazeera answer respects has more. Andall pingts pinkston has more. Choke hold death of eric garner, both cases involving Police Officers and unarmed brak men have led to questions about the grand jury process in this country. The United States is one of the only countries to still use grurs obe indict people for crimes. The grand jury is an institution that existed before the constitution. Its purpose then is similar now, to protect citizens from government prosecution without just cause. What happens inside a gr
Lot of machinery. Home health care nurses. It was real expensive. Also night, highway robbery . This guy has 3,000 alone. He said what are you going to do with all the money . He says were going to las vegas to help my sister. Have some fun. Cash as evidence, even if theres no evidence of crime. Thanks for joining us im joie chen. Innocent until proven guilty, it is the very basis of our system of justice except when things dont work out that way. Consider civil Asset Forfeiture, it allows to seize property, they think could have been the ill gotten gains of illegal activity. It is a powerful tool that can benefit cash strapped communities but it can be abused too. Used even against those who have never even been charged with a crime. America tonights Lisa Fletcher found some calling for aned to it in september. Reporter in september of 2010 Stephen Skinner and his son were driving from chicago to las vegas, nevada. There skinner was going to help a Family Member remodel her home. He a
Symbol of hate or whitewashing history . The confederacy actually happened so i dont think anyone benefits from erasing or attempting to erase any part of our history. Debate over massive memorial in georgia. Plus photo finish stunning shots from around the globe, the winners of National Geographics 2015 Photo Contest. Wind and drought are fuelling wildfires in california. More than 20 are burning tonight across that state. Devouring forests and forcing thousands of residents from their homes. The governor has declared state of emergency, and the National Guard has joined thousands of firefighters working day and night. Many struggling to contain one enormous blaze that tripled in size this weekend. The rocky fire in the foothills and canyons of Northern California is proving to be the most destructive of the wild fires scorching the state. It has incinerated nearly 60,000 acres and more than a dozen homes. It continues to burn for a sixth day, threatening thousands of structures forci
Gather in a prequel to the big first debate. Major issues were on the table but they mostly focused on the democrats. 13,000 people have evacuated their homes in california because of wildfires. Twenty fires are burning in the state, many in Northern California. It is still early in the summer fire season, but firefighters say what they are seeing is unprecedented. Jacob ward explains. Just over the riming, you can see behind me, it is literally hell on earth. The firefighters be deal with not just the local challenges of terrain and local climate theyre fighting against global forces. The western states of the u. S. Are on fire. Northern california is the latest casualty. We just passed a checkpoint where residents are no longer able to go. We are driving into a 60,000acre blaze that is defying all traditional expectations firefighters would have about a wildfire in Northern California at this time of year. The rocky fire should have peaked after two days, but at that point the firefi
It has already killed 11 people. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. An investigation is underway today in lancaster New Hampshire after a circus tent collapsed. Two people were killed and more than 30 others were injured. Officials gave an update just moments ago. The investigation will involve the documentation of the scene which includes mapping out the scene as to exactly where things are located after the collapse. And examining the actual set upof the tent to determine how it was set up in all of the cables where they were connected and things of that nature. John henry smith is here with more on this story. John . Reporter stephanie about 100 people were gathered inside of the tent in New Hampshire for a Late Afternoon circus performance. No one will ever forget what happened right after the show began. It was terrifying and scary, and i dont think ill go to the circus again. Reporter two people died monday when a circus tent was swept up by a su